Word: standards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...HEDGING ON ISSUES. When Carter proclaimed, "I'll never tell a lie," he was setting himself up to be measured by a stiffer standard than any other politician. In fact, he trimmed or fuzzed no more than other candidates?including Ford?but not much less either. He equivocated on which was the most important priority in dealing with the economy: first it was creating new jobs, then it was fighting inflation, then it was a kind of balance between the two. After meeting with a group of Catholic bishops, Carter hedged his outright opposition to any anti-abortion amendment, then...
...questions about them. In terms of intelligence, Heller estimates Carter would rank among the upper 5% or 10% of graduate students in top universities. Says Okun: "What struck me is you really see an engineer's mind at work, not a peanut farmer, not a Baptist preacher, not a standard politician, but the engineering and management-science approach...
...arranged for people to write to Chiang Ch'ing affirming their oath of fealty," while the lady herself was reportedly "so eager she couldn't sit still." Another member of the gang was so confident of the plot's success that he had a photographer shoot "standard portraits" of the gang for publication when it took office. The paper further charged that in their plot to usurp state power, the four were prepared "to kill" certain people-presumably Hua and other members of the Central Committee...
...undoctrinaire, a nation of practical energy, ingenuity and spirit. We have made tolerance and compromise the basis of our domestic political life. We have defined our fundamental goals−justice, liberty, equality and progress−in open and libertarian terms, enlarging opportunity and freedom rather than coercing a uniform standard of conduct...
Carter has ruled out formal wage-price controls and his advisers seem opposed even to voluntary guidelines that would set numerical standards. What kind of wage-price policy does that leave? Okun suggests a series of "prayer meetings" at which Administration officials will urge business and labor leaders in general terms to make sacrifices for the sake of noninflationary growth. He also forecasts a highly informal "prenotification" standard−a request that businessmen and labor leaders inform the new President privately of planned wage and price hikes and discuss their justification in advance. Pechman, director of economic studies at Brookings...